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STOCKHOLM — Sweden recalled its top diplomat in Sri Lanka on Tuesday after Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was blocked from joining a European delegation pressing for a cease-fire between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels.
Bildt had planned to visit Sri Lanka this week with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and French counterpart Bernard Kouchner to appeal for an immediate cease-fire and to call for peace talks to end the quarter-century civil war. They got permission to enter, but Bildt was told he was welcome to visit in May instead.
Bildt, a former U.N. envoy to the Balkans, said he did not receive any explanation.
